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Revision as of 07:36, 1 December 2008
Appenwihr : Appenwihr Cemetery - Commonwealth War Graves Section
Auchonvillers : Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery
Beaumont-Hamel : Hunter's Cemetery
Beaumont-Hamel : Newfoundland Memorial
On July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme in World War I, 801 soldiers of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment rose from the British trenches and went into battle at Beaumont-Hamel, nine kilometers north of Albert in France. After only 30 minutes the regiment was devastated. Only 68 men stood to answer the regimental roll call the next morning. 255 were dead, 386 were wounded, and 91 were listed as missing in action and presumed dead. Every officer who had gone over the top was either wounded or dead. The Caribou memorial overlooks the ground across which the regiment advanced. (Source: Wikipedia)
Beaumont-Hamel : "Y" Ravine Cemetery
Cambrai : Cambrai East Military Cemetery
Doullens : Communal Cemetery
Etaples : Military Cemetery
Flesquieres Hill : British Cemetery
Fouquereuil : Sandpits British Cemetery
Guillemont : Guillemont Road Cemetery
Hermies : British Cemetery
Hermies Hill : British Cemetery
Longueval : Delville Wood Cemetery
Loos : Dud Corner Cemetery
Doignies
Haisnes : St. Mary's A.D.S. Cemetery
Merville : Communal Cemetery
Ovillers : Military Cemetery
Ovillers-la-Boisselle : Pozieres British Cemetery
Ribecourt : British Cemetery
Roclincourt : Arras Road Cemetery
Soissons : Soissons Memorial
Thiepval : Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and is a war memorial to 72,090 British and South African men who died during the Battle of the Somme in World War I and who have no known grave. It is located near Thiepval, Picardie.
Thiepval : The Ulster Tower
Vimy Ridge : Canadian Memorial
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